house. lining some children s stuff up here and other belongings along the driveway. we ve seen this throughout the day. i was here at daybreak and we saw families coming back trying to find precious memorabilia. some trying to find whether their pets survived. you see again throughout the neighborhood, i just want to walk over to show you the random nature of this monster that came through. this is a child s play area that somehow wrapped up in the tree here as this house. as we re standing here now not that long ago teams of responders did come through here. a big wave of them, search teams with their dogs coming back through. now all of these houses were searched yesterday afternoon and throughout the late night and into the early morning hours. but i want you to listen here. brian todd just made note of this. the police chief gary byrd said once is not enough and he hopes by tonight to revisit all of these homes not twice but three times. let s listen. we made it through i will s
for sure. thomas roberts reporting that earlier. it looks exactly the same as what i saw then. the difference that i really see is that, unfortunately, it hit that hospital. thank god the patients were safe, but they were put in imminent danger. and the two schools. last time around i recall seeing more residences. and i think the devastation i m seeing her is exactly the same, but i think just more of it. and at this stage, there appear to be fewer fatalities when compared with 1999. yet the physical devastation, that seems somehow worse. you know, it does. let s hope those numbers hold up. i mean, i certainly do. martin, the thing that i m thinking is well, just to let you know, milissa, we re hearing from fire chief gary byrd. he s saying he s 98% sure that there are no more survivors or bodies under the rubble. 98% sure. well, i tell you what, that is wonderful news. and here is a possible reason why. in may 3rd of 1999, it happened in the evening, and this is a residenti
0 the senate tomorrow will be running some legislation in the final days of the legislature to allow the state if it needs to to be able to access our state rainy day fund, our emergency fund, to help our various communities and certainly our schools that have suffered so much. but if we do need some money, we ll have some legislation that will allow us to do that. of course, we will be receiving some federal disaster relief. we anticipate it s quite obviously that we need it. i also want to mention that i have been in many conversations with state superintendent janet birisi. she has given me an update on the school systems themselves and keeping track of what s going on with the various schools. i think there have been five that have had some sort of damage during this terrible storm. thank you, governor, for coming down. i just want to say thank you to all of you that have come. first off, certainly our hearts and prayers go out to our residents and our folks here in moore. as you
0 freight train but when it got here, it just did a lot of rumbling but the thing that got me was when things started hitting the house hard enough to shake the house. we were in the bath tub and felt the house shake. i have no doubt that god they lifted a wall off these kids, several kids. was it scary? what was it like? it was like a big tornado teared up the whole place. you re a tough one for sticking it out. yep. i m jake tapper. that s all for me here in moore, oklahoma. here is my colleague wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks very much. we re live also here in moore, oklahoma. this is a town absolutely devastated by a monstrous tornado. i ve been to war zones. this looks like a war zone. behind me what used to be a bowling alley we re right next door to the moore medical center. you can see bowling balls still behind me at what used to be moore bowling. here are the latest developments we re following right now. oklahoma officials today lowered the death
who may be trapped in the rubble. further weather alerts are troubling the region to the south. with a tornado watch in texas, even as we speak. in oklahoma, emergency managers say more than 100 have been found alive, but the time is of the essence. as rescue workers with thermal imaging equipment and dogs sift through crumpled cars and splintered structures. medical examiners confirm 24 deaths, 9 of them children, and more than 200 injured. those numbers are, of course, fluid as searchers are ongoing. oklahoma governor mary fallin spoke to the emotional impact for those facing their worst fears. it has been a very, very hard experience. a heartbreaking experience. especially the loss of children and the schools, themselves, and those who haven t been able to find their loved ones and are stale waiting to hear. we frankly don t even know if there are still missing people, but there still may be. the governor fighting back the tears there. and the federal government is bei